About Us

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The Urbansitter Team Click to view individual bios

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• Lynn Perkins

  Co-founder | CEO

  Lynn Perkins

  Co-founder | CEO

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  As a startup veteran, Lynn has more than 15 years of experience building and growing consumer businesses. Prior to founding UrbanSitter, Lynn served as founder and CEO of Xuny.com and VP of Business Development at Bridgepath.com. At Gap Inc., LaSalle Partners, and Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Lynn gained extensive business and transaction experience.

  Lynn is passionate about connecting people with each other. Uniting babysitters and parents is her latest quest. Previous accomplishments include introducing three couples who are now married, matching apartment-seeking friends with roommates in rent-controlled units, and numerous job placements.

  Lynn is a graduate of Stanford University. She and her husband enjoy exploring San Francisco with their rambunctious twin boys.

• Andrea Barrett

  Co-founder | Product

  Andrea Barrett

  Co-founder | Product

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  After spending seven years at Intel in operations and product management, Andrea moved to San Francisco to join her first startup, TripIt. She was Director of Product Management there when she left in 2011 to co-found UrbanSitter.

  After Andrea had a baby, she was amazed at how archaic the process of finding and booking a sitter was. Working in the consumer social space, she felt there had to be a better way. And voila, UrbanSitter was born!

  Outside of work, Andrea enjoys spending time with her husband and two-year old son and is an avid cook. Each weekend brings a new culinary adventure. Some are hits and some are misses. Surprisingly similar to startup life!

• Daisy Downs

  Co-founder | Marketing

  Daisy Downs

  Co-founder | Marketing

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  Daisy is a Stanford graduate and started her career at a Bay Area startup. She then spent 10 years working for advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein and Partners in client services and digital production, advising global brands such as HP, Rolling Rock, and Frito Lay.

  After her daughter was born, Daisy admits she stopped going out because finding a babysitter was too time consuming and stressful. It was then that she realized there was a huge opportunity to make the process more efficient—and so, she teamed up to found UrbanSitter.

  When not working, Daisy is most fond of spending time with her two-year-old daughter. Their favorite hotspots are the Academy of Sciences, Discovery Museum, and SF Zoo.

• Hadar Wissotzky

  Co-founder | Technology

  Hadar Wissotzky

  Co-founder | Technology

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  Coming soon....

• Lauren Hahn

  Director of Marketing

  Lauren Hahn

  Director of Marketing

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  Lauren comes to UrbanSitter with a decade of marketing experience at companies large and small. Most recently, Lauren journeyed into the travel sector at Gilt Groupe’s Jetsetter and Mountain Travel Sobek.

  Lauren is a graduate of Northwestern University, but she does not miss winters in the Midwest, especially considering she grew up in Hawaii. In her free time, Lauren loves to experiment in the kitchen and report findings in her food blog.

• Sean Marrer

  Associate Product Manager

  Sean Marrer

  Associate Product Manager

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  Sean is a Minnesotan living in California. Prior to settling in San Francisco, he taught English to middle-schoolers in a small town in France.

  Over the past few years, Sean has contributed to the User Operations teams at various Bay Area startups. When not at the office, he's likely at the beach living out his boyhood surf dreams or at home cooking food with his wife.

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• San Francisco, CA 94108

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